Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 9
The Fish sends him to "latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West", a real point in the cold North Atlantic Ocean, far from any land.
Who acts: Fish · What happens: send · To what, where: Whale, latitude
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fish | det |
| 2 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | nsubj |
| 3 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sends | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 latitude | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 latitude | punct |
| 7 | latitude | latitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | obl |
| 8 | Fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 latitude | flat |
| 9 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fifty | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Forty | punct |
| 11 | longitude | longitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Forty | compound |
| 12 | Forty | forty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 latitude | appos |
| 13 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Forty | appos |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 latitude | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 point | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 point | det |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 point | amod |
| 18 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 latitude | appos |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Ocean | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Ocean | det |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Ocean | amod |
| 22 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Atlantic | compound |
| 23 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Ocean | compound |
| 24 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 point | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 land | punct |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 land | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 land | case |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 land | det |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Ocean | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | the Fish | Whale | latitude | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to latitude=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:074-justso-whale-throat.lesson:9.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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